Please answer these questions:

• What do the students need to know prior to the lesson?

• Students just need to be familiar with the media. As most students are media consumers, and have been from a young age, I am sure all will meet the prerequisites.

• How will prior knowledge and experience be assessed?

• Prior knowledge will be assessed when I ask them as a group to respond to the question, How (if at all) do you think the media influences a persons’ identity?

• How will you use this information in the planning process?

• I would use this information in a real life classroom and given the feedback formatively assess my lesson to give students more background knowledge if needed. However, given that I will be doing this lesson in a collegiate setting with peers, I will not have the time to formatively assess given their responses, in my classroom I would.

• Why should the content of this lesson be taught at this grade level?

• The content of this lesson is fit for this grade level, because at this age almost all students have access to media either on their personal devices, home devices, and or school devices.

• How do the objectives that you have for the lesson align with the standards?

• My standards align with my objectives, because my content standard asks students to integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue (in this case media literacy). My ISTE standard reads as follows, “ Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.” My objective then coincides, because I ask students to demonstrate an understanding about how media influences our identities both personal and collective. Students will demonstrate their newfound knowledge through designing an educational magazine cover with headlines and graphics that address what they learn through research

• When will the lesson be taught in the course of the school year? Why?

• I would plan to teach this lesson in the first semester of the year so that we can build on the concept of media literacy as the year progresses and continue to critically analyze text.

Please answer these questions:

• Why are you using the instructional methods you have described?

• I am using Ipads with styluses, because I want to encourage students to explore a powerful website using technology on their own. My hope is that I can introduce the styluses as a designers tools when students come to the magazine cover assessment. I will preface them as special tools for  

• How do the instructional methods align with what you know about best practices (think about your methods classes)?

• The instructional methods I have chosen align best with the instructional practice I’ve learned of, “I do, we do, you do” a practice used in the writer’s workshop. I will use this best practice when assigning the final project and modeling the magazine cover first.

• How is your lesson designed to meet the needs of all students? ? (Use the the UDL guidelines as a resource)

• My lesson plan is designed to meet the needs of all students specifically when I print out the website pages for those who prefer to read on paper. I will also find a computer that can read the dialogue to my students with visual impairments.

Please answer these questions:

• How does the assessment align with the standards and objectives of this lesson?

• This assessment aligns with my standards and objectives, because it asks students to become knowledge curators and make a magazine using an online application to exemplify their knowledge.

• How does the assessment demonstrate that the students have been successful in learning the content?

• They will provide relevant headlines, images, and backgrounds to support their learning.

• How does the assessment demonstrate student engagement in higher order thinking?

• This assessment demonstrates higher order thinking because students will critically analyze media on their own using information they have gathered from the Critical Media Literacy to find sources to analyze and then demonstrate their knowledge by curating a magazine cover.

• How does the assessment demonstrate that individual student needs were met?

• Individual student needs will be met with adaptations I will provide students with print outs for those who do not want to or cannot access the Ipads.

Reflection: How does your lesson meet ISTE Standards? (Address Both)

1. ISTE Standards For Educators (the technologies standards you should meet as a teacher)

1. My lesson meets the ISTE standards for educators because I have had to do my own research and play around with new technology for the purpose of this assignment. It has been a valuable lesson in experimenting with new technology that I will someday soon use in my classroom (i.e Google classroom).

2. ISTE Standards For Students (the technologies standards you should help your future students meet)

1. The ISTE standard I’ve chosen for my students is as follows: “students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.” That standard aligns with my final project as students will become knowledge curators in their own right.